Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them. - Suzanne Collins

I'm not their slave, the man mutters. I am, I say. That's why I killed Cato … and he killed Thresh … and he killed Clove … and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games.

"We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives."

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.